The first camera ever created was the camera obscure. It used mirrors to project the image on a piece of glass and the photographer would trace it on a piece of paper. Louis Daguerre released his photographic process in 1839. It used whole plates. He then invented the sliding box camera in 1850. William Talbot created the "mousetrap" which was a smaller version of the sliding box camera. Joseph Petzval found that Daguerre's lenses did not absorb much light so he created lenses which absorbed 16 times more light than Daguerre's. Voigtländer and Sons created a camera using Petzval's lenses which became the standard camera for years to come. In 1851 wet plates were created but these required photographers to carry portable dark rooms. In the 1870's the wet plates where replaced by dry plates which no longer needed a dark room. In 1888 George Eastman made the Kodak camera. It was a role film camera. In 1896 view finders were added to cameras.
A camera is a device that records or captures an image or more. Nowadays thay can even takes videos, the birth of the modern camera spawned in the middle of the 20th century right around the 1950s, with the first rolls of film, creating the ability to have smaller and better cameras at a lower cost. Plus the invention of the Kodak camera by George Eastman in the 19th century launched camera technology forward. With the birth of the disposable camera you could walk down to a toy store or a drug store, buy a kodak, take all the pictures and then return the kodak to have them develop the photos. Also the self-developing camera in the 1960's made it easier to get your photos developed. Nowadays cameras are on every cellular phone and tablet you see. Most of us can’t imagine life without out camera phones. And it all started with a big wooden box that could capture images and print them for you in five to six business days.
Michael Sheridan
Cameras
The first camera ever created was the camera obscure. It used mirrors to project the image on a piece of glass and the photographer would trace it on a piece of paper. Louis Daguerre released his photographic process in 1839. It used whole plates. He then invented the sliding box camera in 1850. William Talbot created the "mousetrap" which was a smaller version of the sliding box camera. Joseph Petzval found that Daguerre's lenses did not absorb much light so he created lenses which absorbed 16 times more light than Daguerre's. Voigtländer and Sons created a camera using Petzval's lenses which became the standard camera for years to come. In 1851 wet plates were created but these required photographers to carry portable dark rooms. In the 1870's the wet plates where replaced by dry plates which no longer needed a dark room. In 1888 George Eastman made the Kodak camera. It was a role film camera. In 1896 view finders were added to cameras.
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A camera is a device that records or captures an image or more. Nowadays thay can even takes videos, the birth of the modern camera spawned in the middle of the 20th century right around the 1950s, with the first rolls of film, creating the ability to have smaller and better cameras at a lower cost. Plus the invention of the Kodak camera by George Eastman in the 19th century launched camera technology forward. With the birth of the disposable camera you could walk down to a toy store or a drug store, buy a kodak, take all the pictures and then return the kodak to have them develop the photos. Also the self-developing camera in the 1960's made it easier to get your photos developed. Nowadays cameras are on every cellular phone and tablet you see. Most of us can’t imagine life without out camera phones. And it all started with a big wooden box that could capture images and print them for you in five to six business days.